American history is full of stories like this. However, we rarely, if ever, heard about them in our history classes or civics classes in school. This story, as with the many genocidal events against Native Americans and other groups, were carefully edited out of textbooks back in the day. The Old West was actually a place of lawless horror, not heroics as we were too often led to believe.

ganymede48 wrote:American history is full of stories like this. However, we rarely, if ever, heard about them in our history classes or civics classes in school. This story, as with the many genocidal events against Native Americans and other groups, were carefully edited out of textbooks back in the day. The Old West was actually a place of lawless horror, not heroics as we were too often led to believe.